NC State Rank: #38

North Carolina Campus Safety

160 colleges and universities in North Carolina. Average safety score: 2.44 incidents per 1,000 students. Ranked by Clery Act on-campus incident rate.

North Carolina reports Clery Act campus safety data across 160 higher education institutions distributed across 104 cities , serving approximately 565,994 enrolled students combined. The statewide average safety score stands at 2.44 on-campus incidents per 1,000 enrolled students, placing North Carolina at national rank #38 among US states for campus safety outcomes. The median institution in North Carolina reports 0.00 incidents per 1,000 students, while 85 campuses reported zero on-campus incidents during the survey window.

South Piedmont Community College in POLKTON leads North Carolina with the lowest reported incident rate (0.00 per 1,000 students). The largest institution by enrollment is North Carolina State University at Raleigh with 37,323 students and a safety score of 2.57. Raw incident counts across institutions in this state must be interpreted alongside enrollment size — a large urban research university and a small rural liberal arts college produce very different absolute numbers for identical underlying risk.

Every institution listed below participates in federal financial aid programs and is therefore legally required under the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act to publish annual on-campus crime statistics. The data is collected by the US Department of Education via the OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey. Rankings shown on this page reflect incident rates per 1,000 enrolled students, so smaller schools with a handful of reports can score worse than large universities with dozens of reports. Use the table below to compare campuses with similar enrollment profiles before drawing conclusions about relative safety.

State Rank Institution City Enrollment Safety Score
1 South Piedmont Community College POLKTON 3,548 0.00
2 Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College ASHEVILLE 6,297 0.00
3 Beaufort County Community College WASHINGTON 1,785 0.00
4 Bladen Community College DUBLIN 990 0.00
5 Blue Ridge Community College Flat Rock 2,822 0.00
6 Brunswick Community College Bolivia 1,845 0.00
7 Cabarrus College of Health Sciences Concord 753 0.00
8 Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute Hudson 3,764 0.00
9 Carteret Community College MOREHEAD CITY 1,579 0.00
10 Catawba College SALISBURY 1,241 0.00
11 Cleveland Community College SHELBY 1,890 0.00
12 Craven Community College New Bern 2,851 0.00
13 Davidson-Davie Community College Lexington 3,959 0.00
14 Gaston College DALLAS 5,871 0.00
15 Isothermal Community College SPINDALE 1,810 0.00
16 James Sprunt Community College KENANSVILLE 1,376 0.00
17 Johnston Community College Smithfield 4,680 0.00
18 Martin Community College Williamston 819 0.00
19 Mayland Community College Spruce Pine 863 0.00
20 McDowell Technical Community College MARION 1,203 0.00
21 Meredith College RALEIGH 1,576 0.00
22 Mitchell Community College STATESVILLE 3,617 0.00
23 Montgomery Community College Troy 1,085 0.00
24 Montreat College MONTREAT 932 0.00
25 University of Mount Olive MOUNT OLIVE 2,128 0.00
26 Nash Community College Rocky Mount 2,425 0.00
27 Piedmont Community College ROXBORO 1,250 0.00
28 Randolph Community College ASHEBORO 2,648 0.00
29 Richmond Community College Hamlet 2,411 0.00
30 Rockingham Community College Wentworth 1,777 0.00
31 Sandhills Community College PINEHURST 3,824 0.00
32 Southeastern Community College WHITEVILLE 1,397 0.00
33 Stanly Community College ALBEMARLE 2,527 0.00
34 Surry Community College DOBSON 2,758 0.00
35 Tri-County Community College MURPHY 969 0.00
36 Warren Wilson College Asheville 797 0.00
37 Wayne Community College Goldsboro 2,883 0.00
38 Western Piedmont Community College MORGANTON 1,791 0.00
39 Wilson Community College WILSON 1,751 0.00
40 NASCAR Technical Institute MOORESVILLE 1,306 0.00
41 Strayer University-North Carolina Concord 3,112 0.00
42 MyComputerCareer at Raleigh Raleigh 1,617 0.00
43 Wake Technical Community College RALEIGH 22,763 0.04
44 Cape Fear Community College Wilmington 14,119 0.07
45 Central Carolina Community College SANFORD 5,574 0.18
46 Catawba Valley Community College HICKORY 4,413 0.23
47 Durham Technical Community College Durham 4,354 0.23
48 Fayetteville Technical Community College Fayetteville 10,877 0.28
49 Central Piedmont Community College CHARLOTTE 18,446 0.33
50 Vance-Granville Community College HENDERSON 2,841 0.35
51 College of the Albemarle Elizabeth City 2,582 0.39
52 Rowan-Cabarrus Community College Salisbury 6,862 0.44
53 Southwestern Community College SYLVA 2,109 0.47
54 Guilford Technical Community College Jamestown 10,443 0.48
55 Robeson Community College LUMBERTON 1,989 0.50
56 Coastal Carolina Community College JACKSONVILLE 3,457 0.58
57 Sampson Community College CLINTON 1,680 0.60
58 Pitt Community College WINTERVILLE 7,371 0.68
59 Haywood Community College CLYDE 1,260 0.79
60 Lenoir Community College KINSTON 2,387 0.84
61 Health And Style Institute Greensboro 1,112 0.90
62 Halifax Community College WELDON 1,013 0.99
63 Carolina University Winston-Salem 893 1.12
64 Campbell University BUIES CREEK 5,115 1.17
65 Alamance Community College GRAHAM 3,739 1.34
66 Appalachian State University BOONE 21,253 1.51
67 Wilkes Community College WILKESBORO 2,405 1.66
68 Roanoke-Chowan Community College Ahoskie 591 1.69
69 Gardner-Webb University BOILING SPRINGS 3,125 1.92
70 Shaw University RALEIGH 962 2.08
71 Pfeiffer University MISENHEIMER 954 2.10
72 University of North Carolina at Charlotte CHARLOTTE 30,298 2.28
73 University of North Carolina Wilmington WILMINGTON 17,987 2.50
74 North Carolina State University at Raleigh RALEIGH 37,323 2.57
75 Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary Wake Forest 2,926 2.73
76 Edgecombe Community College TARBORO 1,036 2.90
77 East Carolina University GREENVILLE 26,785 2.99
78 Forsyth Technical Community College Winston-Salem 8,716 3.21
79 Lenoir-Rhyne University HICKORY 2,230 3.59
80 Salem College Winston-Salem 519 3.85
81 Elon University Elon 7,207 4.16
82 Belmont Abbey College BELMONT 1,650 4.24
83 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill CHAPEL HILL 32,234 4.37
84 Fayetteville State University Fayetteville 6,847 4.38
85 Greensboro College GREENSBORO 898 4.45
86 Barton College WILSON 1,259 4.77
87 St. Andrews University LAURINBURG 832 4.81
88 North Carolina A & T State University Greensboro 13,885 4.90
89 Livingstone College Salisbury 814 4.91
90 Brevard College Brevard 787 5.08
91 Western Carolina University CULLOWHEE 11,628 5.59
92 University of North Carolina at Greensboro GREENSBORO 17,743 5.64
93 Davidson College Davidson 1,904 5.78
94 Queens University of Charlotte CHARLOTTE 1,846 5.96
95 Lees-McRae College BANNER ELK 839 5.96
96 University of North Carolina Asheville Asheville 2,925 7.18
97 Johnson C Smith University CHARLOTTE 1,102 7.26
98 Duke University DURHAM 17,112 7.42
99 Wingate University Wingate 3,322 7.53
100 Mars Hill University MARS HILL 1,049 7.63
101 Wake Forest University Winston-Salem 9,121 7.67
102 High Point University HIGH POINT 6,052 7.93
103 North Carolina Central University DURHAM 7,965 8.79
104 University of North Carolina at Pembroke PEMBROKE 7,630 10.09
105 Johnson & Wales University-Charlotte Charlotte 1,128 10.64
106 Elizabeth City State University Elizabeth City 2,165 11.09
107 Guilford College GREENSBORO 1,208 11.59
108 Methodist University FAYETTEVILLE 1,768 11.88
109 University of North Carolina School of the Arts Winston-Salem 1,074 13.04
110 William Peace University Raleigh 730 13.70
111 Winston-Salem State University WINSTON-SALEM 4,776 14.45
112 North Carolina Wesleyan University ROCKY MOUNT 1,345 17.84
113 Saint Augustine's University Raleigh 943 18.03
114 Chowan University MURFREESBORO 708 40.96
— Alexander Paul Institute of Hair Design Greenville 37 0.00
— Aveda Institute-Chapel Hill Chapel Hill 171 0.00
— Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Charlotte Charlotte 212 0.00
— Bennett College GREENSBORO 195 0.00
— Beyond Measure Barbering Institute Mebane 49 0.00
— Bull City Durham Beauty and Barber College Durham 32 0.00
— Carolina Christian College Winston-Salem 74 0.00
— Carolina College of Biblical Studies Fayetteville 173 0.00
— Carolina College of Hair Design Inc ASHEVILLE 46 0.00
— Carolinas College of Health Sciences CHARLOTTE 410 0.00
— Center for Massage Asheville 57 0.00
— Chamberlain University-North Carolina Charlotte 216 0.00
— Charlotte Christian College and Theological Seminary CHARLOTTE 82 0.00
— College of Wilmington WILMINGTON 154 0.00
— Daoist Traditions College of Chinese Medical Arts Asheville 91 0.00
— Empire Beauty School-Charlotte Charlotte 81 0.00
— Empire Beauty School-Concord Concord 135 0.00
— Empire Beauty School-Pineville Charlotte 81 0.00
— Empire Beauty School-West Greensboro Greensboro 124 8.06
— Empire Beauty School-Winston-Salem Winston-Salem 72 0.00
— Galen Health Institutes-Asheville Asheville 183 0.00
— Gwinnett College Raleigh 117 0.00
— Hood Theological Seminary SALISBURY 132 0.00
— Jung Tao School of Classical Chinese Medicine Sugar Grove 77 0.00
— Leons Beauty School Inc GREENSBORO 129 0.00
— Louisburg College Louisburg 413 16.95
— Manna University Fayetteville 230 0.00
— Mid-Atlantic Christian University ELIZABETH CITY 177 0.00
— Miller-Motte College-Fayetteville Fayetteville 169 0.00
— Miller-Motte College-Jacksonville Jacksonville 187 0.00
— Miller-Motte College-Raleigh Raleigh 214 0.00
— Miller-Motte College-Wilmington WILMINGTON 152 0.00
— Mitchells Academy Raleigh 33 0.00
— No Grease Barber School Charlotte 15 0.00
— One Stop Academy Fayetteville 19 0.00
— Pamlico Community College GRANTSBORO 379 0.00
— Paul Mitchell the School-Fayetteville FAYETTEVILLE 179 0.00
— Paul Mitchell the School-Gastonia GASTONIA 254 0.00
— Paul Mitchell the School-Raleigh Raleigh 133 0.00
— Pinnacle Institute of Cosmetology Mooresville 55 0.00
— Shepherds Theological Seminary Cary 192 0.00
— South University-High Point High Point 70 0.00
— Southeastern College-Charlotte Charlotte 217 4.61
— Southeastern Free Will Baptist Bible College Wendell 74 0.00
— Watts College of Nursing DURHAM 134 0.00
— Winston Salem Barber School Winston-Salem 36 0.00

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